Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 6:00 pm – Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 8:30 pm
Beyond Babel Multilingual Film Festival - Júlia Ist
Part of the Beyond Babel Multilingual Film Festival at Manchester Met hosted by the FLAME Research Group
Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Time: 6pm – 8.30pm
Location: Cervantes Institute
Tickets: Free – Available on Eventbrite
Introduced by Marta F Suarez (Manchester Met)
Spanish, Catalan, German and English
On Wednesday 8 May, Júlia Ist (directed by Elena Martín) tells the story of Júlia (Elena Martin), an architecture student from Barcelona, who experiments with the challenges of a new life in Berlin as an Erasmus student: mastering the language, setting up in a new environment, being separate from her family and long-term boyfriend.
The film will be introduced by Marta Suarez (Cervantes).
Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan and German with English Subtitles.
About The Beyond Babel Multilingual Film Festival
Alluding to the Bible story of The Tower of Babel and the curse of diversity of tongues, Beyond Babel is a film festival that aims to celebrate multilingual life, showcase a wide range of films, share discussions on film aesthetics, and broaden the visibility of multilingual communities on screen. Planned by the FLAME research group at Manchester Metropolitan University, the 5th edition of Beyond Babel remains true to its core values: embrace the beauty of multilingualism; showcase transnational film productions from different regions of the world; curate multilingual films which connect with the personal, the local, and the global and can open conversation across cultures. This year’s programme will bring together four afternoons of screenings, with film introductions and Q&A sessions. It explores a wide range of themes: cultural differences, multilingualism, homeland, education, gender and sexuality, global citizenship, mobility, immigration, integration and identity. The festival aims to engage, inspire, connect and celebrate the culturally diverse communities of Manchester.
Film, Languages and Media in Education (FLAME) is a pioneering research group at Manchester Metropolitan University established in 2013 and dedicated to the development of research and knowledge exchange activity in the areas of Pedagogy, Languages, Film and Media.
Book your tickets to the other events in this series below:
Call Me By Your Name (dir. Lica Guadagnino / Year: 2017 / Runtime: 132 minutes / Certificate: 15)
Introduced by Nicoletta DiCiolla – (English and Italian)
Date: Tuesday 7th May 2019
Tickets: Free - Available on Eventbrite
Double Screening: Unity and Community and No Cow on the Ice
Introduced by Simona Manni (University of York) and Carmen Herrero (with a short video presentation by the director) (Swedish, Galician, English, Spanish)
Date: Monday 13th May 2019
Tickets: Free - Available on Eventbrite
La Fille de Keltoum (dir. Mehdi Charef / Year: 2001 / Runtime: 106 minutes)
Introduced by Isabelle Vanderschleden (French, Arabic)
Date: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Tickets: Free - Available on Eventbrite
With apologies, due to a recent building assessment, No. 70 spaces are no longer considered accessible for disabled visitors. Please contact lucy.simpson@mmu.ac.uk or ring 0161 247 6740 if you have additional access needs and you were planning to attend.